Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:17:10 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> wrote:
>
>>notbob wrote:
>>> On 2015-10-08, Embudo > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Soon to return - the van dyke...
>>>
>>> Perhaps not. Turns out the beard fell out of fashion in the early
>>> 20th century due to the discovery that tuberculosis was passed by
>>> coughing and that the infectuous sputum might rest on one's own
>>> whiskers. We are now seeing multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis
>>> (MDR-TB), so the beard may go the way of the slide rule, once more.
>>>
>>> I've worn a van dyke for years, but only cuz my fuller beard looks
>>> terrible. I let it grow out a bit in Winter to keep my face warm.
>>>
>>> nb
>>
>>I'm going to let mine grow and grow until Xmas, then I'm going to shave
>>it all off.
>
> Without this newsgroup we wouldn't have known this.

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